Dick Powers, a three-sport athlete at Bishop Bradley (now Trinity), a star football player at Boston College, and a longtime coach in Manchester, died in his sleep Monday night or Tuesday morning at...

Manchester police charge two men with prowling

MANCHESTER - Police arrested two Manchester men and accused them of staking out houses in a south-end neighborhood. Both were charged with prowling.A driver called police and reported there were two men walking through yards of several homes on Huse Road around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, saying the men were wearing the hoods of their sweatshirts up.Officers responding to the call questioned the men, who were arrested after not being able to provide a legitimate reason for walking through the yards.Nicholas Watson, 22, and Jeremiah Cole, 22, were found walking along the back of a South Mammoth Road home and arrested. Police said Cole was carrying an empty backpack and a folding knife.

Police said they arrested a Massachusetts man Tuesday for a parole violation stemming from indecent assault and battery on a child in his home state.

A Maine man accused of sending threatening and sexually explicit emails that appeared to come from Portsmouth Police Chief Robert Merner and other police and school officials plans to use an insanity...